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Do not turn your servant away in anger,
you who have been my help.
Do not cast me off, do not forsake me,
O God of my salvation! 10 If my father and mother forsake me,
the LORD will take me up.

11 Teach me your way, O LORD,
and lead me on a level path
because of my enemies. 12 Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
for false witnesses have risen against me,
and they are breathing out violence.

13 I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living. 14 Wait for the LORD;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the LORD!

Morning Psalm 147:12-20

12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion! 13 For he strengthens the bars of your gates;
he blesses your children within you. 14 He grants peace within your borders;
he fills you with the finest of wheat. 15 He sends out his command to the earth;
his word runs swiftly. 16 He gives snow like wool;
he scatters frost like ashes. 17 He hurls down hail like crumbs —
who can stand before his cold? 18 He sends out his word, and melts them;
he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow. 19 He declares his word to Jacob,
his statutes and ordinances to Israel. 20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!

First Reading Jeremiah 20:7-11 (12-13) 14-18

7 O LORD, you have enticed me,
and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
everyone mocks me. 8 For whenever I speak, I must cry out,
I must shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For the word of the LORD has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long. 9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot. 10 For I hear many whispering:
“Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
All my close friends
are watching for me to stumble.
“Perhaps he can be enticed,
and we can prevail against him,
and take our revenge on him.” 11 But the LORD is with me like a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble,
and they will not prevail.
They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten. 12 O LORD of hosts, you test the righteous,
you see the heart and the mind;
let me see your retribution upon them,
for to you I have committed my cause.

13 Sing to the LORD;
praise the LORD!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hands of evildoers.

14 Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed! 15 Cursed be the man
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A child is born to you, a son,”
making him very glad. 16 Let that man be like the cities
that the LORD overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon, 17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great. 18 Why did I come forth from the womb
to see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?

Second Reading 1 Corinthians 10:14-17; 11:27-32

10:14Therefore, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols. 15I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? 17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

11:27Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. 28Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves. 30For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 31But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged. 32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Gospel Reading John 17:1-11 (12-26)

1After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

6“I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. 14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20“I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, 21that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, 23I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

25“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. 26I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Evening Psalm 126

1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream. 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then it was said among the nations,
“The LORD has done great things for them.” 3 The LORD has done great things for us,
and we rejoiced.

4 Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like the watercourses in the Negeb. 5 May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy. 6 Those who go out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
carrying their sheaves.

Evening Psalm 102

1 Hear my prayer, O LORD;
let my cry come to you. 2 Do not hide your face from me
in the day of my distress.
Incline your ear to me;
answer me speedily in the day when I call.

3 For my days pass away like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace. 4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass;
I am too wasted to eat my bread. 5 Because of my loud groaning
my bones cling to my skin. 6 I am like an owl of the wilderness,
like a little owl of the waste places. 7 I lie awake;
I am like a lonely bird on the housetop. 8 All day long my enemies taunt me;
those who deride me use my name for a curse. 9 For I eat ashes like bread,
and mingle tears with my drink, 10 because of your indignation and anger;
for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside. 11 My days are like an evening shadow;
I wither away like grass.

12 But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever;
your name endures to all generations. 13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to favor it;
the appointed time has come. 14 For your servants hold its stones dear,
and have pity on its dust. 15 The nations will fear the name of the LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory. 16 For the LORD will build up Zion;
he will appear in his glory. 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
and will not despise their prayer. 18 Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD: 19 that he looked down from his holy height,
from heaven the LORD looked at the earth, 20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die; 21 so that the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem, 22 when peoples gather together,
and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.

23 He has broken my strength in midcourse;
he has shortened my days. 24 “O my God,” I say, “do not take me away
at the mid-point of my life,
you whose years endure
throughout all generations.”

25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands. 26 They will perish, but you endure;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away; 27 but you are the same, and your years have no end. 28 The children of your servants shall live secure;
their offspring shall be established in your presence.